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A cicle of interviews as an hypersigil

 
 
LucasCorso
07:35 / 23.09.03
Ok, here's my project at the moment.
As I work as a journalist, I thought it would be nice to create something that could be useful both in a professional and a magical way and then I started thinking about all these discussions here on fiction/reality.
Then, with my fellow, we decided to bring the project to many magazines: imagine a double interview about, let's say, mafia, in which we try to understand if italian mafia acted the same way after all the bosses saw "The Godfather". In which way all the kind of fiction affected italian reality? This is what we want to discover,I think it will be very funny and I think this is going to be something as an hypersigil, but I never dealt with an hypersigil before. So, any suggestions? There's something I should be careful about? Any particular deity to invoke to make the project come true? If everything will go as I think, I hope in the next months there will be many and many contaminations between fiction and reality around here...
 
 
Nietzsch E. Coyote
08:39 / 23.09.03
thoth is a popular one god to invoke.

Try to be very carefull about the wording of your questions...
 
 
LucasCorso
09:49 / 23.09.03
You mean that,as the god of words, I must be very careful with the meaning of words?Do you know a good ritual to deal with thot?
 
 
cusm
14:07 / 23.09.03
Write him a letter
 
 
LucasCorso
16:23 / 25.09.03
That sounds nice, cusm; we're talking about the god of words, aren't we?Anyway, here's what occurred to me in the latter days.
I created a sygil to make editors value favourably our project, and then I invoked both Thoth and Hermes, visualizing them as the two faces of the same coin.
I decided also to stop smoking for a while (which is very difficult for me) in an effort to offer a sacrifice to the gods.
Then, I awoke late at night in a state of excitement, I just could'nt sleep. I read a bit, then I fell in a strange state between wake and sleep, and I saw Thoth. I asked what could I do in order to start my project, and He told me 'Wait'; then I asked if He could help me and He answered "Sure", and then I had a glimpse of a name, which seemed to me sounding something like "Marchesini".
When I totally awoke, some minutes later, I was shivering not in fear,I think, but in power...It was so strange.It was the second time a god talked to me, the first one I had a contact with goddess Athena as I reported in another thread; but this time the experience was more brief but stronger.
I decided to dedicate to Thoth/Hermes the reading of chants IV and V from Dante's "Paradiso", which are about Mercury's Sky, inhabited by active spirits.
And now I'm waiting,my fellow today developed a contact with some editor called "Marco", which sounds similar to "Marchesini": could it be I misunderstood Thot's words?
And, more important, if the project goes on, what will happen in dealing with an hypersigil?
Thanks to all who can give me suggestions
 
 
Chiropteran
17:38 / 25.09.03
LucasCorso: This sounds like an interesting project (i.e. feedback between "real" and "fictional" Mafia). What I'm wondering, though (and I may have just missed the point in an earlier post), is where the hypersigil itself comes in? Are you looking at the interviews themselves as a kind of hypersigil (and to what end)? Or are you exploring the Godfather movies as a kind of hypersigil that shaped the subsequent history and character of the Mafia?

The discussion just sort of jumped straight to Thoth, and I feel like I blinked and missed a step along the way.

Good luck with the project, though (and way to go re: getting Thoth on board)!

~L
 
 
LucasCorso
06:22 / 26.09.03
Hi Lepidopteran.
Well, my idea is making interviews as a kind of hypersigil,in order to make the readers wondering how fiction influences their perception of reality.
I'd like to explore the other side of the subject as well: were the people involved in the actual facts conscious that, at some level, they were acting as fictional characters, following the clichès of some kind of fiction?
As you see, my purpose is to bring myself and the readers to a higher level of perception,using the narrativity theories.
 
 
Chiropteran
12:59 / 26.09.03
Ah, okay - I get it now. Very interesting. Do keep us posted, yes?

~L
 
  
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